The Southern African Innovation Summit presents to you
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Be curious, not judgmental. Walt Whitman
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You cannot discover oceans unless you have the courage to leave the shore. Successories
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Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. Albert Einstein
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Not all those who wander are lost... J. R. R. Tolkien
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Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it. Roald Dahl
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Good things come to those who work their asses off and never give up. Unknown
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Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines. Robert H. Schuller
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In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play. Friedrich Nietzsche
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If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough. Albert Einstein
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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. Pablo Picasso
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One of the virtues of being very young is that you don’t let the facts get in the way of your imagination. Sam Levenson
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My childhood may be over, but that doesn’t mean playtime is. Ron Olson
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Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future. Robert H. Schuller
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There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. Nelson Mandela
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The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting at the proper moment what we know. Arthur Koestler
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But out of limitations comes creativity. Debbie Allen
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Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties. Gail Sheehy
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The secret of life‌is to fall seven times and to get up eight times. Paulo Coelho
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Far better to live your own path imperfectly than to live another’s perfectly. Bhagavad Gita
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A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow. Charles Brower
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It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all. Edward de Bono
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You can’t wait for inspiration; you have to go after it with a club. Jack London
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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo
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I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones. John Cage
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The Stone Age didn’t end because they ran out of stones. Unknown
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If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. Steve Jobs
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I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum. Desmond Tutu
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innovation |ˌinəˈvā sh ən| noun the action or process of innovating. • a new method, idea, product, etc. : technological innovations designed to save energy.
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invent |inˈvent| verb [ trans. ] create or design (something that has not existed before); be the originator of : he invented an improved form of the steam engine. • make up (an idea, name, story, etc.), esp. so as to deceive : I did not have to invent any tales about my past.
box |bäks| noun a container with a flat base and sides, typically square or rectangular and having a lid : a cereal box | a hat box. think outside (of) the box think in an original or creative way : you have to give him credit for thinking outside the box.
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I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. albert einstein
inspiration |ɪnspɪˈreɪʃ(ə)n| noun the process of being mentally stimulated to do or feel something, esp. to do something creative : Helen had one of her flashes of inspiration | the history of fashion has provided designers with invaluable inspiration. • the quality of having been so stimulated, esp. when evident in something : a rare moment of inspiration in an otherwise dull display. • a person or thing that stimulates in this way : he is an inspiration to everyone. • a sudden brilliant, creative, or timely idea : then I had an inspiration.
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south africa’s recycling facts sourced from: prasa.co.za / recycling.co.za / treevolution.co.za / petco.co.za
Energy saved from paper recycling per annum is sufficient to provide electricity to 512 homes for a year
every year
♥ are ♥ recovered
of plastic bottles when recycled, saves 1,5 tons of carbon and 6,2 cubic meters of landfill space
295 879 tons of glass
is recycled every year
36000 of high-grade steel is recovered every year by recycling It takes 19 x 500ml PET bottles to make the fiber for a standard pillow
Recycling a single plastic bottle can conserve energy to light a 60w light bulb for up to 6hours
raw material
If your dreams don’t scare you, they aren’t big enough. Lowell Lundstrum
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The important thing is not to stop questioning. Albert Einstein
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A problem well stated is a problem half solved. Charles Kettering
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Originality is simply a fresh pair of eyes. Woodrow Wilson
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Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward. Victor Kiam
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All life feeds upon the random. Douglas Hoftadter
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Change your thoughts and you change your world. Norman Vincent Peale
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Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. Robert Louis Stevenson
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It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. Henry David Thoreau
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. Albert Einstein
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A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. Helen Keller
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A person who never made a mistake, never tried anything new. Albert Einstein
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One new perception, one fresh thought, one act of surrender, one change of heart, one leap of faith, can change your life forever. Robert Holden
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I can’t tell you the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone. Ed Sheeran
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When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead. Ernest Hemingway
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Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. Albert Einstein
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We must become the change we wish to see in the world. Mahatma Gandhi
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The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible. Unknown
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No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking. Voltaire
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The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible. David Ogilvy
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A ship in port is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for. Grace Murray Hopper
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BE MORE CREATIVE: Carry a notebook everywhere Make mistakes Break rules Read a page in the closest book Make unlikely connections Be open Get away from you desk Write for 3 minutes, non-stop Have a cup of coffee Collaborate Take a break Clean your desk Buy a new pen Remember to sleep Write down your ideas Take risks Go for a walk Challenge your assumptions Never ever give up Enjoy it
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